[Fredric Rice forward: The following has been edited a bit to removeinformation which might be used by Scientology to identify and Fair Gamethe individual in accordance with Scientology's Fair Game policy ofracketeering acts against whistleblowers et al.

I have asked the individual to file criminal charges with local and Stateofficials and to provide documentation to licencing authorities in formalcomplaints.

Everything else other than formatting has not been altered in any way.

Some of the information was apparently transfered from written notes whichwere made either while Scientology was committing these acts against thisperson, or were written afterwards, when the person managed to acquireunobserved time away from the Scientology crooks.

Almost everything being reported is common within the Scientology"NarCONon" fraudulent "drug treatment" scam offices, crimes whichScientology engages in daily against drug and alcohol addicts knowing thatState and Federal officials have abrogated all responsibility for shuttingthese frauds down and putting these crooks in jail. However there may beinformation here that is new and informative enough to possibly get someof these crooks put in prison. -- April 2010]

-=- Begin eye-witness report -=-

I have been reading everything I can online about Narconon.

I will give you as much info that I have and maybe you can offer someadvice.

My name is MM and I was sent to Albion MI for an serious alcohol problem.That was on XX-XX-09. I questioned everything including repeatedly askingis this Scientology and why wasn't I told.

In order for me not to talk to the new people about my concerns, I wasshipped off to a shelter in Kalamazoo. XX-XX-10.

I spoke to a rep at Battle Creek (Nick Thiel) on XX-XX-09 about the place.I was told I would get 4 one-on-counseling sessions, healthy diet,exercise, sauna, supplements, etc.

I was told to quit my Rx head meds cold turkey. [XXXX and XXX -- the namesof the medication have been redacted -- flr] I wouldn't be needing themanymore. Little did I know you can't even get aspirin. All is cured by thesauna program.

Nick Thiel, on the phone XX-XX-09, couldn't describe the program to mebecause it was all based on individual needs. Not true! Everyone goesthrough the 8 intro books to Scientology and the Sauna.

Nick Thiel is now head of Ethics at Albion Narconon. He is also aScientology. He is the main reason I was banished to a shelter. He knowsfrom history from selling this program to myself and my parents. My folksare in there XXs and I was homeless. Meaning, I don't have any money tohelp with legally going after them.

My comments and complains...

1. Bullbaiting - you can use any language you want to get a reaction from your "twin". That includes using race, religion, sexual ID, gender.

I could not believe a person of color is allowed to be called nigger!! Fags are a source of laughter.

Sat there while a woman was told her pussy smell. The list goes on.

I reported the Narconon staff instrutor who did a sissy gay man for fun. All the kids just thought it was a riot. You have it just sit there and not react. This is suposed to stop you from drinking and drugging?!

2. Medical (nurse) was there from 9am until 9pm. For the most part. No one was medically training in the withdrawn unit. If you were detoxing you only had a just graduated student to deal with. No or little or late medical attention.

Their head nurse just lost her nursing license because she was stealing Rx meds used for withdrawn patients.

3. Saved and dispensed old students Rx meds. I myself received a past students high blood pressure meds. It was the same Rx.

4. Meds sometimes given out by non medical staff.

5. Smoking is done by staff in offices. They allow smoking in the building in the women's lounge and rec room. Those rooms have small exhaust fans. It really does get the smoke out.

Being a nonsmoker I had to beg for a nonsmoking women's lounge. Took 2 1/2 weeks. I've never smoked and that would have been one of the many reasons not to go to Narconon.

All common outside areas allowed smoking.

6. Extended amounts of time in the sauna. I assumed when they talked about the sauna, I would be spending about a 1/2 hour a day in there. I ended up in it for a month and a half.

Up to 5 hours a day.

My niacin dose went from 100mg to 2,000mg.

Lucky for me I only had the painful full body flush once. Lucky I didn't have to go for the full 5,000mg.

7. Vans the silver mini vans is missing it's passager side headlight. The windshield is cracked in 3 placed. Been that ways since I arrived XX-XX-09 red van doesn't have any heat. The windows are left down to defrost the windshield.

8. Went thru a serious bout of depression. Told staff I just want to kill myself. I was threatened with a Ethics cycle (punishment) Begged and finially receive a nature anti-depression called 5-HTP. Never saw a Doc. of any kind.

9. Cleaning supplies where handed out on Sat. morning for "all hands cleaning". They were then put away.

Well, any complaints about a Narconon subsidiary going uplines to Narconon Int'l is going to hit the circular file. IF it gets there.

MAYBE the complaint to the newspaper and HR for Rehabs might get some attention. Perhaps sending them info about how this young man is not the only "student" complaining about the same exact things, same issues, same problems, same lack of adequate care, same cult indoctrination, same dangerous quackery, etc.

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From what I gather in my mode as Internet Lurk Queen (here, there and everywhere), /b/tards (and similar "anything goes" / rough and tumble groups online) use loaded, offensive words, in part, to defuse them of their power to shock and hurt. If everyone is an [insert epithet here], then it ceases to be a way to stigmatize a specific group.

Of course, not all /b/tards appear to be capable of grasping that concept, or scoff at the idea because it isn't being offensive just to be offensive (for the LULZ, always). Also, because it is likely that people outside of the group won't grasp it either, it is unwise to forget where one is and drop "chanslang" without taking the potential audience into account, and having some tact and sensitivity.

One thing being subjected to a constant flow of abuse that may or may not have any truth to it (for who can tell who is what, when everyone is named "Anonymous"?) is likely to do is to toughen people up, and to underscore that it's just the Internetz, they should really just relax. The downside is that people can also get desensitized to the potential those words have to wound.

The latter state is what the cult apparently seeks to achieve: drilling recruits with verbal abuse until they no longer flinch at anything they hear directed their way. Ideally, I suppose, an indoctrinated cultist will not only be able to ignore insults, but also ignore inconvenient information they may hear as being "insulting" to their so-called "religion." It shuts down the little trigger most people have when confronted with loaded words or illogic or uncomfortable information. it's probably good to make that button less easy to push and less accessible to just anyone, but it is a bad idea to remove the button altogether. Sometimes our reactions to what we are told are a warning sign that something is not OK, or not making sense, or simply not "right" in some way.

AFAICT, /b/ has no desire to recruit anyone, and, in fact, is not welcoming to n00bs who make the mistake of being OBVIOUSLY new. Also, if you are offended by /b/, /b/ does not, AFAIK, give a crap. All the better, to keep the easily offended out of the /b/tard clubhouses.

Personally, I find it useful when I find myself offended by something. It makes me ask myself why. It works not as a thought-STOPPING event, but as a thought-PROVOKING event.

/b/ is like Duchamp's urinal sculpture, if you could go back in time to when it was new. (Not too long ago, album covers, including a Rolling Stones cover and, IIRC, a Mamas and Papas cover, both got censored because they pictured a bathroom / toilet. Now you can see D-list celebrities sitting on the can to sell Candi's shoes and people may find it tasteless or tacky, but it doesn't get censored or, frankly, stir up much outrage or discussion.) The amount of self-awareness (and deliberate outrageousness to stir up discussion and action) from one /b/tard to the next is likely to vary widely, of course.

In short, one goal of the bullbaiting technique in Sci and its front groups is to teach recruits thought-STOPPING techniques and behaviors, and obedience. One goal of anarchistic collections of /b/tards and similar types of rowdy netizens is to be outrageous and fun, and outrage has always been a good way to provoke discussion and feelings and thoughts. Various groups of crazy artists and writers and musicians have figured that out, and competed to up the ante and challenge how "norms" or "mundanes" or "outsiders" viewed the arts, and the world itself.

When /b/tards start seeking to STOP their friends and foes from thinking and reacting and debating, then I will be concerned. Until then, I see their use of offensive terms and behaviors as being different from how the cult uses the same terms and behaviors. /b/ WANTS reactions and thinking, the cult tries to stifle reactions and thinking.

IMVHO, as always. And, as I am not a /b/tard, one may pop up to disagree utterly with my opinion, and that's fine by me, too. Also, one can get a decent peek into how the /b/ hivemind operates by skimming Encyclopaedia Dramatica, which ranges from hysterically funny and surprisingly intelligent social commentary, parody, homage and satire to puerile bathroom humour and grossness / pr0n / gore and idiocy (there's a reason ED editors are called EDiots).

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"Once the foundation of a revolution has been laid down, it is almost always in the next generation that the revolution is accomplished." -- Jean d'Alembert

The Human Wiki."I spend hours surfing the web for information, so you don't have to!"

"POSITION: Student and coach sit facing each other a comfortable distance apart - about three feet. Student has an E-meter.

"PURPOSE: to train student to confront a preclear with auditing only or with nothing. The whole idea is to get the student able to hold a position three feet in front of a preclear, to BE there and not do anything else but BE there.

"TRAINING STRESS: Have student and coach sit facing each other, neither making any conversation or effort to be interesting. Have them sit and look at each other and say and do nothing for some hours. Student must not speak, fidget, giggle or be embarrassed or anaten. [Scientologese for Analytical-Attenuation.] It will be found the student tends to confront WITH a body part rather than just confront, to use a system of confronting rather than just BE there. The drill is misnamed if confront means to DO something to the pc. The whole action is to accustom an auditor to BEING THERE three feet in front of a preclear without apologising or moving or being startled or embarrassed or defending self. After a student has become able to just sit there for two hours, 'bull-baiting' can begin. Anything added to being there is queried by a coach with a 'What happened?' Twitches, blinks, sighs, fidgets, anything except just being there is promptly queried with the reason why, if necessary."

By way of explanation; the coach is instructed to "bullbait" as follows: "The coach may say anything or do anything except leave the chair. The student's buttons can be found and tromped [sic] on hard. Any words not coaching words may receive no response from the student. Instructors should have coaches let students have some wins (coach does not mention these) and then, by gradient stress, get the coaches to start in on the student to invite flunks. This is 'bull-baiting.' The student is queried each time he or she reacts, no matter how minutely, to being baited. The whole of T-R 0 should be taught rough-rough-rough and not left until the student can do it. Training is considered satisfactory at this level only if the student can BE three feet in front of a person without flinching, concentrating or confronting with, regardless of what the confronted person says or does."

Extraordinary these instructions may sound, yet T-R 0 is one of the set of T-R's which have been around for years and is regarded as absolutely essential if one is to be able to handle a preclear with the correct degree of attention combined with self-disciplined separateness that is the essence of the auditor's attitude.

"HISTORY: Developed by L. Ron Hubbard in Washington in March 1957 to train students to confront preclears in the absence of social tricks or conversation and to overcome obsessive compulsions to be 'interesting'. Revised 1963 by Reg Sharpe."

Needless to say, this T-R more than any other is applicable to life at large and is not confined to the auditing room. Meet a Scientologist in everyday life and you will invariably find that he looks at you in a most disconcerting way. His level gaze and expressionless face will give a creepy feeling he is looking right into your innermost soul. He isn't but he looks as though he is. If he keeps saying "Thank you", "Good", "Fine", "Okay" and "Alright", often with no particular relevance to the train of conversation, he is giving you acknowledgements and you should feel grateful.